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A Fight We Can Win
Nichols, John | January 31, 2005 issue

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Discusses the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. Effort of former legislator Charlie Melancon to block CAFTA; Idea that CAFTA opens barriers to trade, but does not protect workers and the environment; The reason CAFTA is considered a "watershed pact"; Comments of Citizens Trade Campaign executive director Larry Weiss, Representative Kevin Brady, Representative Sherrod Brown, and others; What is needed for CAFTA to be implemented; Effort of fair-trade activists to organize.

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FREE trade; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 2001-; LEGISLATION; LOBBYING; MELANCON, Charlie; WEISS, Larry; BRADY, Kevin; BROWN, Sherrod, 1952-
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